Download or read book Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Las Vegas, 1960. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford are the Kings of Cool---the Rat Pack. Ocean's 11 is their first movie together and they have taken Sin City by storm---filming during the day and cavorting onstage at the Sands Casino at night. It's clear not everyone is charmed, however, when Dean begins receiving anonymous threatening letters. Eddie Gianelli, also called Eddie G., is a pit boss at the Sands. After twelve years, he's got the whole town wired. But he's still surprised when Joey Bishop drops by his table and invites him to meet with Frank in the Rat Pack's private steam room. Frank asks Eddie to find out who's been sending the threats, as a favor to him and Dean. Eddie wants to politely decline, but caught between his boss, Jack Entratter's, not-so-subtle nudging and being utterly starstruck by Dino, he agrees to look into it. He gets help from his P.I. best friend and a Jewish torpedo from Brooklyn. A few dead bodies and bruised ribs later, he remembers why he was reluctant. In a city of gamblers, Eddie has become the highest roller of all. The game is murder, and the stakes just may be his own life. Robert J. Randisi, the man Booklist claims "may be the last of the true pulp writers," takes his readers on a vivid, neon-lit tour of back rooms, bars, and famed gambling dens of the desert mirage that was---and still is---Las Vegas. Broads, blackjack, and bourbon flow. Celebrities, from John F. Kennedy to Angie Dickinson, strut in and out of this amazing first in a series that Rat Pack fans and crime fiction lovers will not want to miss.

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Download or read book Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dean Martin receives threats while the members of the Rat Pack are in town filming Ocean's 11, Eddie, the pit boss at the Sands Casino, joins forces with a private detective to uncover the culprit, but his search leads him right into the heart of a murder case. First in series.

Download or read book Hey There You with the Gun in Your Hand written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961 Las Vegas, Eddie Gianelli, pit boss at the Sands Casino and a friend of members of the Rat Pack, is called in by Frank Sinatra to stop an extortionist targeting Sammy Davis, Jr., only to find himself caught in a conspiracy involving murder and the Secret Service.

Download or read book You re Nobody Til Somebody Kills You written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rat Pack 4 Robert J. Randisi delivers the best entry yet in this evocative, fast-paced series. This time, it's not really a Rat Pack member who needs help from Eddie G., pit boss at the Sands Casino and friend of the Rat Pack, but an extended member—Marilyn Monroe. Still smarting from being blamed for Clark Gable's death after the filming of The Misfits, Marilyn thinks she's being followed. Eddie's on the job, but must take a break when he receives word that his mother has died. He flies back home to Brooklyn for the first time in fourteen years, with his buddy P.l. Danny Bardini looking after Marilyn while he's gone. When Eddie hears that Danny has gone missing, he returns to Vegas with Jerry, the Brooklyn tough guy, and the two investigate Marilyn's concerns more seriously. With stops at both Marilyn's home and Frank Sinatra's house in Palm Springs, where Frank is preparing to receive President JFK, this is another thrilling, fun-filled ride through the glittering world of the Rat Pack. PRAISE FOR RAT PACK MYSTERY NOVELS "Randisi perfectly captures the GLITZ, GLAMOUR, CORRUPTION, AND CRIME of the era, using the Rat Pack gang with affectionate respect and considerable acumen."―Publishers Weekly on Luck Be a Lady, Don't Die “As entertaining as the series debut. Frank, Dean, Sammy, and Joey Bishop are all portrayed as the COOLEST OF THE COOL CATS (well, maybe not Joey), and the stakes are elevated….GREAT FUN for the snap-brimmed-hat crowd.”―Booklist on Luck Be a Lady, Don’t Die "Longtime mystery veteran Randisi does a BANG-UP JOB CAPTURING SINATRA, MARTIN, DAVIS JR., AND THEIR FELLOW KINGS OF COOL in all their Vegas glory....With a likable but savvy protagonist, a deep understanding of Vegas culture and sixties style, and an obvious love of the Rat Pack, Randisi delivers a stylish, memorable winner."―The Baltimore Sun on Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime “A RAT-A-TAT WHODUNIT [that] harks back to drugstore pulp fiction…Randisi conjures up a sharkskin-suited man's world, awash in booze [and] broads…a quick romp…with a flashy façade.”―The Washington Post on Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime

Download or read book You re Nobody Til Somebody Kills You written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie G.'s services have been enlisted again, this time to help Marilyn Monroe, who thinks she's being followed. When Eddie gets called back to New York, his buddy P.I. Danny Bardini takes up the charge, only to go promptly missing. Eddie returns to Vegas with Brooklyn tough-guy Jerry and the two investigate Marilyn's concerns more seriously, with stops at both Marilyn's home and Frank Sinatra's house in Palm Springs. You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Kills You is a Rat Pack mystery from Robert J. Randisi that crime fiction fans and Vegas lovers won't want to miss.

Download or read book Sometimes I Lie written by Alice Feeney and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

Download or read book You Make Me Feel So Dead written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Gianelli faces his toughest challenge yet when he's asked to bodyguard the King of Rock & Roll It’s 1964, and Elvis Presley is heading to Vegas for the opening of his latest film, Viva Las Vegas. Although he despises rock & roll, Frank Sinatra has always had time for Elvis. So when Elvis’s manager contacts Frank to explain that Elvis is out of control and to request Frank’s help in safeguarding him while he’s in Vegas, Frank calls on Eddie as being just the man for the job. At the same time, Eddie must find out who put his friend, Vegas PI Danny Bardini, in hospital – and why. In order to get to the bottom of the mystery, while doing his best to keep Elvis out of trouble, Eddie will need to call on his old friends, the Rat Pack, for help.

Download or read book To Steal from the Dead written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a town in Kansas, Clint is approached by a woman who claims an undertaker stole her husband’s belongings before burying him. Clint discovers this is true, and that the man has done it before. Clint takes on the task of proving the undertaker is crooked and tries to get the belongings back. He finds out the undertaker is not working alone, and proving him guilty won’t be easy.

Download or read book The Way You Die Tonight written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward G Robinson is in Las Vegas researching his new movie, The Cincinnatti Kid with Steve McQueen. Frank Sinatra puts him in touch with Eddie G., floor manager of the Sands Casino and friend to the Rat Pack who frequent it. But rumour has it that Howard Hughes is also in town looking to buy a casino; and what Hughes wants he usually gets. Jack Entratter, the owner of the Sands tries to fight the takeover and sends Eddie G., to go and convince Howard Hughes not to pursue it. Then, Entratter's secretary goes missing and Eddie G. is entrusted with looking for her, delving into the murky underworld of Las Vegas; a world he knows well . . .

Download or read book Fly Me to the Morgue written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new Rat Pack mystery - Bing Crosby wants to buy a horse to indulge his other passion - when he' not plasying golf with Bob Hope, that is. But when his trainer fails to show up in Vegas, and when he finds the horse's owner dead, problems begin to mount up. Time for Eddie G and Jerry to come to the rescue, urged on by Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, in town to watch the start of Frank Junior's career. But soon the body count - and temperature - starts to rise . . .

Download or read book Hunt for the White Wolf written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FLIGHT OF THE HUNTER Jesse and John Henry Trapp are two of the best hunters in the States, and men that Clint Adams considers friends. When Clint just misses meeting up with Jesse in Little Town, Wyoming, he figures that the hunter is going to Montana to find the great white wolf. But Jesse isn't the only one heading north. Close on his heels is Cole West, a man wronged by Jesse's brother John Henry—and he's looking for revenge. Clint knows the man tracking Jesse is up to no good, and the Gunsmith isn't the kind to let bad things happen to his friends...

Download or read book Virgil Earp Private Detective written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RIGHT ON THE MONEY It's only after visiting good friend Wyatt Earp and learning of his brother Virgil's detective agency that Clint Adams has reason to venture into the small town of Colton. Except when he gets there, he realizes there's barely a watering hole—or a mystery—in sight. And with business as slow as molasses, Virgil hasn't a clue how to pay his own rent. So when Sally Quest comes into his office with her purse full of money, demanding that he find her long-lost sister, Virgil is eager to take the case. But Clint has a hunch that she's got ulterior motives. And it isn't long before the Gunsmith becomes a sleuth in hot pursuit of a spineless suspect...

Download or read book The Town Council Meeting written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DEAD DRAW Having a big reputation with a gun has its perks, but it also makes Clint Adams the prime suspect when Big Ed Kennedy—owner of the Bar K Ranch—turns up shot in Cannon City, Wyoming. When Big Ed's men ride into town looking for blood, Clint just happens to be in the saloon playing poker with a lawyer, the judge, and the mayor. Now the poker game has turned into a town council meeting, with twenty angry ranch hands waiting outside for a verdict. As the town sheriff keeps the ranchers from storming the place, it's up to Clint to figure out who killed Big Ed. But with no one to back him up and no way to escape, it just might be the Gunsmith's last hand...

Download or read book Bitterroot Valley written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CATTLE BARON Granville Stewart is the wealthiest and most powerful rancher in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. Only the most daring—or foolish—rustlers would even consider stealing Stewart's steers, but that's exactly what Stringer Jack's outlaw band plans to do. Clint Adams is in the valley at the request of his friend the sheriff, who needs help in keeping the peace. Because if the rustlers strike Stewart's ranch, the cattleman will take the law into his own hands—and instigate a bloodbath that may place the Gunsmith in the cross fire...

Download or read book Luck Be a Lady Don t Die written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-12-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegas, 1960. Gamblin’, drinkin’, and everybody’s misbehavin’. Six months ago, while they were filming Ocean’s 11, the Rat Pack needed Eddie Gianelli’s help to track down the mug who was sending threatening letters to Dino. Now they’re back for the premiere and it’s Frank who needs Eddie’s help. Seems a babe he was planning to meet in Sin City took a powder---leaving behind her luggage and a stiff in the bathtub. She’s on the lam, and it’s up to Eddie to find her and figure out if she’s a victim or a killer. Once again Eddie teams up with his P.I. buddy, Danny Bardini, and the Jewish New York torpedo, Jerry Epstein, who never met a pancake he didn’t like. Together they scour the neon streets, smoke-filled lounges, casinos, and seamy back alleys, dodging bodies and thugs with guns. But when Sam Giancana arrives on the scene, Eddie starts to wonder if he’s going to be able to keep himself out of jail---and alive. Celebrity cameos spice up the action, and Mo Mo Giancana brings a dark presence to the story. Once again, Randisi, the man Booklist says “may be the last of the pulp writers,” gives readers a tour de force of bright lights, hot dice, and drop-dead-gorgeous dames in this second novel in the exciting, acclaimed series.

Download or read book I m a Fool to Kill You written by Robert J. Randisi and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a rumor spreads that Frank Sinatra's ex-wife, Ava Gardner, was seen in the Sands Hotel & Casino in a state of distress, Eddie G. is asked to check it out. Eddie tracks down the rumor and discovers that Ava was, indeed, briefly in the Sands, but left just as quickly. Following her to LA, Eddie finds out that Ava is afraid she did something horrible during an alcoholic blackout and it falls to Eddie―joined by his big buddy Jerry Epstein―to try to reconstruct that time period and fill in the blanks, ably assisted by the Rat Pack themselves. But when an attempt is made to put Eddie in the hospital they quickly realize that much more is at stake . . . PRAISE FOR RAT PACK MYSTERY NOVELS "Randisi perfectly captures the GLITZ, GLAMOUR, CORRUPTION, AND CRIME of the era, using the Rat Pack gang with affectionate respect and considerable acumen."―Publishers Weekly on Luck Be a Lady, Don't Die "Longtime mystery veteran Randisi does a BANG-UP JOB CAPTURING SINATRA, MARTIN, DAVIS JR., AND THEIR FELLOW KINGS OF COOL in all their Vegas glory....With a likable but savvy protagonist, a deep understanding of Vegas culture and sixties style, and an obvious love of the Rat Pack, Randisi delivers a stylish, memorable winner."―The Baltimore Sun on Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime “A RAT-A-TAT WHODUNIT [that] harks back to drugstore pulp fiction…Randisi conjures up a sharkskin-suited man's world, awash in booze [and] broads…a quick romp…with a flashy façade.”―The Washington Post on Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime